Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not

much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage

into the loveliest garden you ever saw. 🔊 How she longed to get out of

that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and

those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the

doorway; 🔊‘and even if my head would go through,’ thought poor Alice, ‘it

would be of very little use without my shoulders. 🔊 Oh, how I wish I could

shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.’ 🔊

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately,

that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really

impossible. 🔊

There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went

back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at

any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: 🔊 this

time she found a little bottle on it, (‘which certainly was not here

before,’ said Alice,) 🔊 and round the neck of the bottle was a paper

label, with the words ‘DRINK ME’ beautifully printed on it in large

letters. 🔊